America has entered a great struggle that tests our strength, and
even more our resolve. Our nation is patient and steadfast. We
continue to pursue the terrorists in cities and camps and caves
across the earth. We are joined by a great coalition of nations
to rid the world of terror. And we will not allow any terrorist
or tyrant to threaten civilization with weapons of mass murder.
Now and in the future, Americans will live as free people, not in
fear, and never at the mercy of any foreign plot or power.
- in a speech at Ellis Island, New York, New York, on Sep. 11, 2002
[Terrorism : War]

I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people
who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.
- to rescue workers at the destruction of New York's World Trade Center
[America]

I donít think you should support the death penalty to seek
revenge. I donít think thatís right. I think the reason to
support the death penalty is because it saves other peopleís
lives.
- [Capital Punishment]

I kind of like to look at the ranch on Google; reminds me of
where I want to be sometimes.
- [Homesickness : Internet]

. . . if you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you
ought to be interested in preventing them from having the
knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon.
- October 17, 2007 [War]

In the long run, the right answer to unemployment is to create
more jobs.
- in a radio address by the president to the nation
[Unemployment]

Our nation was horrified, but it's not going to be terrorized.
- on the destruction of New York's World Trade Center
[Terrorism]

Our response involves far more than instant retaliation and
isolated strikes. Americans should not expect one battle, but a
lengthy campaign, unlike any other we have ever seen. It may
include dramatic strikes, visible on TV, and covert operations,
secret even in success. We will starve terrorists of funding,
turn them one against another, drive them from place to place,
until there is no refuge or no rest. And we will pursue nations
that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism. Every nation, in
every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with
us, or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward, any
nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be
regarded by the United States as a hostile regime.
- in a speech before the U.S. Congress on Sep. 20, 2001, on the destruction of New York's World Trade Center
[Terrorism : War]

States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis
of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. By seeking
weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and
growing danger. They could provide these arms to terrorists,
giving them the means to match their hatred. They could attack
our allies or attempt to blackmail the United States. In any of
these cases, the price of indifference would be catastrophic.
- in his State of the Union address
[Evil : Terrorism]

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is
certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been
at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.
- in a speech before the U.S. Congress on Sep. 20, 2001, on the destruction of New York's World Trade Center
[War]

The same creator who names the stars also knows the names of the
seven souls we mourn today. The crew of the shuttle Columbia did
not return safely to Earth, but we can pray they all are safely
home.
- on the 2003 destruction of the space shuttle Columbia
[Explorers]

This act will not stand. We will find those who did it. We will
smoke them out of their holes. We'll get them running and bring
them to justice.
- on the destruction of New York's World Trade Center
[Terrorism]

This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger.
- on the destruction of New York's World trade Center
[America]

Those who make war against the United States have chosen their
own destruction.
- on the destruction of New York's World Trade Center
[War]

We are not deceived by their pretenses to piety. We have seen
their kind before. They are the heirs of all the murderous
ideologies of the 20th century. By sacrificing human life to
serve their radical visions--by abandoning every value except the
will to power--they follow in the path of fascism, and Nazism,
and totalitarianism. And they will follow that path all the way,
to where it ends: in history's unmarked grave of discarded lies.
- in a speech before the U.S. Congress on Sep. 20, 2001, on the destruction of New York's World Trade Center
[Terrorism]

What happened to our nation on a September day set in motion the
first great struggle of a new century. The enemies who struck us
are determined and they are resourceful. They will not be
stopped by a sense of decency or a hint of conscience--but they
will be stopped.
- in a speech at Washington, D.C., on Sep. 11, 2002
[War]